It's impossible to miss—it's the floating biofilm on top of your delicious ... curious ability to eat sugars and produce bacterial cellulose. The reason we and other researchers are focused ...

Bacteria permeate virtually every corner of the Earth. Most bacteria live in a biofilm state to enhance their survival and propagation, and to perform essential tasks for many ecosystems.

Bacterial Space Biofilms (1st flight): Launched on November, 2019 (NG-12). Returned to Earth on January 2020 (SpaceX-19) Fungal Space Biofilms (2nd flight): Launched on February, 2022 (NG-17).

Biofilm communities are not simply surface-adherent mixtures of bacterial species, rather they are dynamic and structurally complex systems. As biofilms might be the default mode of bacterial life ...